Adam Ferguson on human nature and enlightened governance

In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 137-151 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

An account, based principally on Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society, of his concept of enlightened governance, and of the relation between that concept and his concept of human nature.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,667

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Adam Ferguson on human nature and enlightened governance.Alexander Broadie - 2015 - In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 137-151.
Political knowledge and human excellence in Aristotelian political science.Ryan Balot - 2015 - In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge.
“We Have Mingled Politeness with the Use of the Sword”: Nature and Civilisation in Adam Ferguson’s Philosophy of War.Craig Smith - 2014 - The European Legacy 19 (1):1-15.
Rhetoric and citizenship in Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society.Christopher J. Finlay - 2006 - History of Political Thought 27 (1):27-49.
Cicero on expertise In governance.Walter Nicgorski - 2015 - In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge.
Adam Ferguson: The "Good Preceptor" of Empire.James Steven Sheets - 1993 - Dissertation, The University of Rochester
Montesquieu and the paradoxes of the art of statesmanship.Rebecca Kingston - 2015 - In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge.
Alexis de Tocqueville on science, statesmanship and political philosophy.Aristide Tessitore - 2015 - In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge.
Edmund Burke, the "science of man," and statesmanship.Daniel O'neill - 2015 - In Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge.
Philosophical history and the science of man in Scotland: Adam Ferguson's response to rousseau*: Iain McDaniel.Iain Mcdaniel - 2013 - Modern Intellectual History 10 (3):543-568.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-11-13

Downloads
56 (#387,348)

6 months
11 (#359,362)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references